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• Jun 27, 2026

  How RuneBeats streams audio to Discord — FFmpeg, Opus, and a source router

  The path a /play command takes through RuneBeats — source detection, metadata resolution, fresh stream URLs, and the FFmpeg → Opus → Discord pipeline.

  • #deep-dive
  • #discord
  • #audio
• Jun 27, 2026

  Running a Discord music bot for free on Oracle Cloud's Always Free tier

  A practical guide to deploying RuneBeats on a permanently-free 1 GB Oracle Cloud VM with Node 22, yt-dlp, and PM2.

  • #deploy
  • #self-hosting
  • #discord
• Jun 27, 2026

  RuneFetch 1.0 — one tool for YouTube, Spotify, and 1000+ sites

  RuneFetch is an open-source desktop download manager with a browser extension that captures media from any tab. Here's what's in the first release.

  • #release
  • #python
  • #downloads
• Jun 26, 2026

  This website is the product demo

  Why the DwarvenStack site is built on its own token system — and why that makes polish the pitch, not vanity.

  • #tokens
  • #astro
  • #meta
• Jun 20, 2026

  Forged, not animated

  A note on restraint — why DwarvenStack interfaces move only when the motion means something.

  • #design
  • #motion
  • #craft